“Are you surprised by the tenor of these ads?” Hayes asked Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is challenging Rep. Hunter for the San Diego seat.

“Not at all, ” he replied. “It’s deeply un-American, it’s not true.”

“I’m not a security threat, I was given a clearance by the FBI,” he noted. “The security threat is Duncan Hunter, who was criminally indicted for spending a quarter million dollars and the corruption smoking gun that you talked about was when he paid back $60,000 — he is guilty.”

“I would note he probably couldn’t pass a background check if he were to get a routine job in the federal government that needed security clearance,” Hayes noted.

“That’s right, for a couple reasons,” Campa-Najjar replied. “One, the indictment. Two, financial instability, he had to overdraft his account by $35,000. Three, his well-known documented excessive drinking. And then fourth, the womanizing.”

“All those things are things that are red flags, if I had any of that in my background I would not have gotten a security clearance,” he added.